Garment.



H. MORRIS, W. SAPHIER & J. P. MANN.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31,1911.

1,054,981 Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

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UNITED "sT'ATEs ems; OFFICE.

HARRY MORRIS, WILLIAM SAPHIER, AND JOHN P. MANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO HARRY MORRISAND JOHN P. MANN, COPARTNERS DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE-NAME AND STYLE OF MORRIS, MANN & REILLY.,

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Marat, 1913.

Application filed July 31, 1911. Serial No. 641,476.

To 1 'ur/wm it may concern Be it known that we, HARRY MORRIS, asub ect of theKmg of England, residing at 4738 Grand Boulevard, lVILLmM SAPIIIER, a sub ect of the King of Roumania, residmg at 433:") Frame avenue, and JOHN P. MANN,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at i 6052 Kimbark avenue, all of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and .useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in ladies garments, and more particularly to certain novel means employed in ladies waists for preventing perspiration from soiling such garments.

The invention consists, in general terms, in placing within,' and permanently attaching to such a garment, a pair of impervious, or water-proof members, designed to be interposed between the wearers body under the arm-pits, and t-hegarment, and to prevent perspiration from reaching the latter; and in placing over such impervious members, and in engagement therewith, other, absorbent members, which latter are made of Washable material and are designed to permit of ready engagementwith, and disengagement from said impervious members; whereby they may, be interposed between the body and such, impervious members and allowed to absorb.v perspiration, and then removed, washed,"and replacedduring all of which time the said impervious members are left permanently in place in the garment and serve the double purpose, when the absorbent members are also in place and the garment is in use, of retaining the latter in place and also preventing-their absorbed moisture from reaching theggarment and soiling the same. f 'f A form of device embodying'the principles of the present invention is'showii inthe accompanying drawing, in whichtij Figure 1 is a; view in perspective with parts broken away showing the complete device as used in' connection with a ladys waist. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective showing the complete device detached therefrom. Fig. 3 is fa view-in perspective showing the detachable cover portion of said device.

- Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view of a portion of the permanent, impervious member of the device, showing a modified form .of con struction. Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. 4, showing still another modified form of such construction.

As shown in said drawings, in Figs. 1 to 3 both inclusive, the device which, with its.

improved means of attachment to the gar-. ment embodie the principles of the present invention, comprises essentially an inner, impervious, or water-proof member 7, and anouter, detachable, absorbent member 8; each being somewhat crescent shaped in outline and comprising two lobes or folds, joined together along their upper and shorter curved margins. In the use of the device the said inner member 7 is placed permanently in the garment, being arranged with one of its folds, 9, extending downward into the sleeve thereof and the other fold, 10, extending into the body portion of such garment. This is illustrated in Fig. 1 where it will be noted that the upper and shorter curved edge of said member 7 conforms to the curve of the sleeve opening into the garment; and said member is so secured therein by sewing or otherwise. The two folds 9 and 10, are made of suitable. impervious or waterproof material and as here shown are made of the material known as rubberized cloth, comprising a sheet of cloth coated with a covering of rubber. The free edges of the folds 9 and 10, are bound with strips of binding material 11, 11. This part of the device. is adapted to be placed within the garment and permanently attached thereto, being arranged therein as above indicated, and being maintained in place in any -.convenient manner, but preferably by sewing through its upper corner portions, as indicated by the stitches 14. In connection with the permanent member 7 is used the detachable, porous, absorbent cover 8, of

similar shape but slightly larger, and likewise comprising two lobes or folds, 16 and 17. This latter member is made of any suitable absorbent cloth and is shown as likewise bound around its free edges by strips of binding material, 18, 18. As a means of securing 1t in place over the permanent member 7 :there are provided upon the inner surfaces of each fold 16 and 17, ribbons or hands 19 and 20; each of suchfolds having on its inner surface a band 19 extending horizontally across its entire upper width inc and attached at the margins of such fold; and another band 20 attached at its upper end to the center of the first band and extending downward to the lower margin of 5 the fold, where it is likewise attached. It will thus be seen that the detachable cover 8 may be secured in position over the erma-. nent member 7 by lnserting the two olds 9 and 10 of the latter into the pocketlike spaces which cross their inside surfaces; andfthat, no sewing whatever is requiredjupon oir' in connection with the cover nglmembe "'nf order to secure it efiecti'vely; {pie is out wrinkling, within'the garment; n

- its operative relation to thepart In .thepractical application of 'th hove described device it is'jiiit'ended"that apair of the members 7 shall be permanently placed within a garment in the 'manner above described and one or more pairs of the absorbent covering members 8 used in connection therewith. The latter may then be placed into the garment and used as desired; and may readily be removed, washed and replaced from time to time without disturbing the permanent attachment of the inner parts 7 or their function in preventing moisture absorbed by the covering members 8 from reaching the garment; and without the necessity of sewing or other time-consuming methods of attaching to such garment. Itwill be observed moreover, that the construction of the parts being such that the only fastening means between the inner and the outer members are the bands 19 and 20 attached to the outer member 8, the latter is equally adapted for use asadetachable cover for otherforms of garment protectors or dress shields such as are commonly found on the market. In any case therefore, where a garmentmay be provided with a omplete dress shield of any ordinary form, embodying one or more plies of impervious fabric in its construction, and it is desired that the shield. shall'remain in the garment, oneof'the covering members 8 may be pro vided and placed over such shield, and subsequently removed, washed and replaced in the same manner as above indicated; during 60- all of which time the original dressshield may remain within and permanently attached to the garment and serve the same double function as the member 7 above described, in retaining the detachable cover in place and preventing its absorbed moisture from reaching the garment and soiling v the same. -10 between the folds 16and 17 and the-bands In Fig, 4 is illustrated a modified form,

22, of the-permanent or impervious member of the device, such member 22 being shaped to provideoutward extensions 24, 24, at its 4 Pen lrjners for the purpose of affording means 50f attachment to the garment y the necessity of puncturing any i p rtion of the effective surface of such mem-. 'hemfit being designed'that the sewing shall through the portions 24, 24:, which extend beyond the margins of the absorbent cov- .errng member 8.

overlap the corne'rs'of the member 26 and reinforce the same, in order to prevent the stitches from tearing out under strain.

We claim as our invention:

A garment protector comprising an inner non-absorbent member adapted for permanent attachment to a garment, and an outer removable absorbent member adapted to completely cover said first named memher and provided with narrow crossing bands on its under surface within which said non-absorbent member is adapted to lie, wherebysaid outer member is removably connected to said inner member, for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses this 28th day of. July, 1911.

' HARRY MORRIS.- WM; SAPHIER.

. JOHN P. MANN. Witnesses:

B. LEVY, RENA Ferrous... 

